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I write words, I sometimes get to perform them out, sometimes I'm even paid. And I'm trying to get it right, get it right.
with enough repetition, your flaws become your style
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o20 in idea barrages
1.) It is astonishing how many Americans are willing to accept clear obvious lies as long as the liars validate their sexism and racism. 2.) If you are named “Jefferson” after Jefferson Davis, it...
o19 in idea barrages
1.) Maybe the soap opera isn’t dying because of more people working days, maybe it’s just social media is a cheaper 24/7 “reality” soap opera. 2.) “23 skidoo” was a viable slang for generations. ...
o18 in idea barrages
1.) Yes, you are probably messed-up and half-broken but here’s the secret: everyone is. Don’t compare yourself to someone else’s pretending not. 2.) Your parody of “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” wo...
o17 in idea barrages
1.) “Amazon Fire Stick” sounds less like a way to watch videos and more like a particularly gruesome venereal disease. 2.) Your deconstruction of fan fiction will be called “Rosencrantz/Guildenst...
o16 in idea barrages
1.) I enjoy the fact that the guy who rapped PARENTS JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND has a son who communicates solely in new-age gibberish. 2.) I kinda want to learn what “Peppa Pig” is so I can write a p...
o14 in idea barrages
1.) How I never wrote a parody of “Cumbersome” about cummerbunds is beyond me too. 2.) In comics, has there been a really mellow viking with freezing powers called Chillaxe yet? 3.) Upon meeting ...
barragetober the thirteenth in idea barrages
1.) At this point, I’d go for a rule in baseball where if you get nine strikeouts, you lose no matter how much you’re winning by or when. 2.) I like the idea of God as an inactive force in all th...
o12 in idea barrages
1.) I confuse Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out and Sixth Avenue Heartache on a pretty consistent basis. 2.) As long as we hide the sins of the powerful, the cruel will do anything to get to that place &am...
o11 in idea barrages
1.) Your metal band will be called Dumlaut with an umlaut over each instance of the letter “u”. 2.) Remember, these Nazis don’t care if they’re known to be hateful or stupid as long as they feel ...
o10 in idea barrages
1.) More than anything, IKEA sells the illusion that building your own stuff poorly is better than paying a little extra to have it done right. 2.) At this point in the Trump junta, we’re only al...
o9 in idea barrages
1.) Move over, mad scientists, there’s a mad vintner in THE ISLAND OF DR. MERLOT. 2.) Power your starship with penicillin and Activia, the probiotics and antibiotics annihilating each other to re...
o8 in idea barrages
1.) Teenage frogs dissecting humans in science class. 2.) Beetlejuice, flipping through a Lovecraft novel, laughing his ass off at every other line. 3.) A good thing to do to mess with local Scie...
o7 in idea barrages
1.) Oh man. A parody of “Ebony and Ivory” about apathy and irony would be pretty clutch, if anyone remembered Ebony and Ivory. 2.) You know a frog is into racist conspiracy theories when it croak...
o6 in idea barrages
1.) There WILL be Vegas “Truthers” peddling madness to pretend we don’t need change. The doc about them will be called “Disbelieving Las Vegas”. 2.) Your wrestling/Dr. Who mash-up will be called ...
you will go to the moon in poetry
The moon, above all else, is above all else. She hangs up there languid and waiting. People have been there but only for a little while only pushing the limits of what we can do as humans even...
maybe I am damned to write another heartbroken poem after every senseless massacre that the American cult of the gun causes and then bullies us into never doing anything about this time i...
the run down in poetry
You who chase bliss, I can understand you. You who chase power, I can reason with you at least sometimes. You who chase compassionate acts, I try to be with you, I try to be like you, I try t...
a rolling stone slowly erodes losing itself to the road as it goes a rolling stone gathers no moss that is to say rather it gathers loss the stone slowly sheers off thin layers on itself le...
o5 in idea barrages
1.) The new fad with the kids is getting as many venereal diseases as they can. It’s a burning sensation! 2.) If you watch the prequels imagining Palpatine as Trump and Jill Stein voters collecti...
o4 in idea barrages
1.) Not only is the “DIE HARD is the best Christmas movie” meme annoying as hell but it’s also false. BATMAN RETURNS, c’mon. 2.) Cats and dogs are wonderful because they don’t know the state of t...
o3 in idea barrages
1.) All the ancient men with their pumped up dicks, takin’ pills takin’ pills, boners at a hundred… 2.) Success doesn’t make you a good person. If you succeeded by hurting others, you are bad and...
o2 in idea barrages
1.) “Learn to speak human” I tell the dog “and I can help you better. Doesn’t even have to be English, I speak some French, Pop knows Russian.” 2.) My body itself is a first world problem. Trying...
sympathy for the devil we knew in poetry
I went to a K-Mart going-out-of-business sale to mourn a kind of America that has passed way maybe no less evil in its consumerism but certainly less invasive when at least the rich pe...
o1 in idea barrages
1.) No one refers to their disease as “moderate to severe” outside of commercials. Maybe moderate OR severe but never both. 2.) I listen to the late-night paranormal radio shows and think “Ah the...
to the tune of LOVE SHACK in song parodies
if you see a light-up sign by the cinema door that says “fifteen films based on Lovecraft” Lovecraft, H.P. you’re headin’ down Miskatonic Highway what’s the source, literarily? headed for t...